Living Jazz Presents: Call & Response: Monk Talks Monk with Danny Scher

Join Living Jazz and KCSM, as legendary jazz promoter Danny Scher and T.S. Monk, son of Thelonius Monk, discuss this historic recording, the circumstances that surrounded it, and the complex journey that took place until the album's recent release on Impulse Records now 52 years later. This evening of conversation will be moderated by KCSM’s Chris Cortez. For Thelonious Monk, 1968 was yet another banner year of featured cover stories and recording for major label Columbia Records. In the midst of those critical accolades during his Columbia years, Monk enjoyed a full schedule of touring dates in such jazz hotbeds as New York and San Francisco. During this time, Monk performed his brilliance as band leader and improvisor in the most unlikely setting: a small-stage 350-seat high school auditorium on a Sunday afternoon in the lily-white bedroom city of Palo Alto on the peninsula south of San Francisco (now part of Silicon Valley). That historic October 27, 1968 concert, produced by teenager Danny Scher, has been released for the first time by Impulse Records as Palo Alto. You're invited to join the conversation and have a chance to hear selections of this historic recording. Bios: Danny Scher, music promoter, worked for Bill Graham presents for 24 years and was responsible for the creation of Shoreline Amphitheatre and later New Orleans By the Bay. After leaving Bill Graham Presents, he later formed his own production company called DanSun productions. All About Jazz Interviews Danny Scher T.S. Monk, son of the great Thelonius Monk is a drummer, percussionist, composer, and bandleader. He joined his father's trio and toured with his dad until the elder Monk's retirement in 1975. He later went on to have a solo career. After his father passed in 1982 and his sister passed in 1984, to honor his father's legacy and support the efforts of education, T.S. Monk created the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Chris Cortez, is a producer, announcer and Co-Host of Mid-Day Jazz on KCSM, Jazz 91.1 FM radio.